Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-02-12
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/ A buUuB bvseutouon OF o IopoO Now u0O0
Discussed In home and Polisica.
From the Baltimore Sun.
| We have before us In pamphlet form, the
speech Of Senstor Brown, OF aeorgla, on the
| Joint resolution OF Senator Blair, Of New
Hampshire, 10 submit 10 the states an
| amendment TO the constitution allowing
women to vote. We have already recorded
the fact that at the close Of the discussion the
Senate, by large majority, In the presence
OF many OF the women sufiragists then o.
sembled In Washington, refused 10 adopt
the resolution. But the speech OF Senator
Brown IL none tho less worth noticing, since
the effect Of 1t seems to have satisfied sena-
tors, II they were not Of the opinion before,
that II Is nnsdv vsable TO extend the privilege
OF the suffrage To women. Being introduced
into the Senate, II was perhaps necessary 70
ssy something about the impossibility of
women, endowed with the privilege OF the
sufirage, undertaking the masculine duties
implies 1t ie like thrashing over old straw
to repeat the reasons against permitting
women TO vote. Nature, Senator Brown 70.
marked, has % distinctively set her seal
upon the respective sexes that this alone
would form q bar TO their undertaking iden.
cal duties and obligations III believe" said
the senator, "that the creator Intended that
the sphere Of the males and females OF our
race should be different and that their duties
are equally important aud equal honorable,
and that each Sex In equally Ompetent 70
discharge those dutieA In the divine econ
omy II II provided that the man shall be the
self the solemn obligation of providing for
and protecting the family. BY reason OF bis
physical strength, and his other endowments
and faculties, he 10 qualified for the dis
charge Of those duties that require strength
and ability to combat with the sterner reali-
ties and abilities OF life. The different classes
OF outdoor labor which require physical
strength and endurance are BY nature ~
signed TO man a. part OF bis task. He dis.
physicsl lea endurancs % % and strength % than % he r..
male sex are usually found to possess"
Senator Brown goes on to cite the manifold
duties that man, a. citizen, owes TO tho state
and society, most OF which woman could
not even attempt to perform without virtually
unsexing herself. In her own sphere he
holds that she Is paramount The delicate
and difficult duties OF the wife and mother
arc devolved upon her. As vile, to be the
and dependency, his nurse In sickness, and
the sharer Of his burdens when they are
onerouA As Q mother, to fulhll the sacred
and responsible trust Of bringing up her
children In the way they should go, and TO
manliness, religion and virtue that shall
either make them ornaments OF society, or
doom them by her neglect TO Lives OF Dis.
honor and shame This In bis high ideal OF
woman's duties In that sphere she u best
also within the home that her Influence can
best be exerted - the power behind the
throne, and her counsels most effective 'in /
favor Of good government wise and whole
ton OF the lawA" He Is satisfied that the re-.
fined and cultivated women OF this country /
" now exercise very powerful but quiet
influence In popular affairs"
be again II they were dragged into the mire
Of politics. He does not believe that the
great majority Of the women Of the
country desire the suffrage, but he a..
serted that 30 far a. the colored population
Of the South is concerned, 1t would import
into poiticss mass Of Ignorance and illiterscy
that would lead to the degradation OF the
ballot to an extent beyond anything that has
yet been conceived. Doing justice to the
good Intentions of the woman suffrsgists,
and good," he asks, "n we are ready to ex.
pose the country to the decentralization OF our
Institutions, to crafty minority OF virtu.
ous and good women at the expense OF the
'ame sex ~ Senator Brown next takes up
he marriage relation, and points out how
he grant OF the suffrage to women might,
rom difference Of political opinion, import
nent Of discord, and, in closinR, he quotes
argey from q volume written in opposition
o woman suffrage "by q highly cultivated
sdy OF Chicago" Her theme IL that The
rue sphere OF woman Is the household tenn
pie of a loving homs, and that her best type
. "the old. fashioned type of womanhood,
he wife and the mother" Two points abe
makes which touch the very core OF the sub
ect. The first IL that OF the leaders OF the
womsn's movement ga less proportion are
Inclined to marry than Of the old.iashioned
ype that ''of those who do marry . great
proportion are either restless in marriage
,onds or seek release from them, while OF
hose who do remain in married life many
,esr no children, and few indeed become
mothers OF large families" She adds: "If
hen the movement for the emancipation OF
women has for its final end the making Of
lever 10 fine y quality, never 80 sublimsted
sort OF non child. bearing women, it Is an
upon the face Of IT."